Martin John by Anakana Schofield

Author:Anakana Schofield
Language: ara, eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 2015-08-11T23:09:07+00:00

After it he didn’t feel bad as much as flat. Flatness was what he felt. Like he’d lost interest in something. It was done now. There was a time early on when he’d felt guilty. Now he defaulted to again, again. He would go back for her.

That was the moment it did not work, it did not work the way it previously worked and it was the moment he could have predicted they would come for him.

They beat him. Beat him hard. Elbows to his stomach, knee to the groin and into his drooping, saggy pouches. They did not spare his eyes. There was no space for explanation, which was useful because he had no explanation to offer. The bridge of his nose was imprinted with the clasp of a watch. The top of his head was cut. His eye. They marked him in a way he could not leave the house.

What did you say, what did you say? Did you call for help? mam would later ask him.

—I said nothing. I said nothing. I had nothing to say.

He said it flat. Dull, ambivalent like the entire episode took place in his sleep.

—I expected it, he added.

She did not like that. But neither did she ask why. These days she never suggested calling the Guards. They’ve little time for the likes of us, she said. Unless it is we they are after.

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